Calm Down Dear

We're back with perhaps our most paradoxical episode yet - how often do you get strong positive ethical chat alongside chat about the best way to dispose of a body? Yup, that's what we thought.

This week's enthusiastic guest is sustainable fashion pioneer and founder of Chaos and Colour Pariss Cozier, a woman who blazed a trail taking her first from London to Bristol (geddon the Westcountry), all the way to traditional garment making in India and beyond. Alongside discussion of the fast-fashion bingeing and ethical discovery which led her to where she is now, is a big old confession of a love for cults and all things macabre. Pariss is most definitely a woman after our own hearts... just as long as she's not, you know, actually after our hearts. We get the sense she might get away with it.

There's all the usual new recommendations too from Becky and Sarah, covering everything from Sarah's new obsession with Quokkas and Curtis Sittenfeld, to Becky's outrageous boot buying and new poetic favourite.

Something for everyone you could say. Hopefully.

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Shownotes:

Quokkas (go on have a look, work wasn't that important anyway) - https://www.google.com/search?q=quokka&safe=off&sxsrf=ALeKk01v7iCOkMTnV1OGmxaxjmmoqtv02A:1606256842307&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfsIOEnZztAhXyTRUIHVxACpAQ_AUoAXoECA4QAw&biw=1440&bih=688

BBC Radio 4's Pick of the Week with Greg James and Bella Mackie - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000plx2 

Jennifer Egan - A Visit From The Goon Squad - https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/13/jennifer-egan-visit-goon-squad 

Curtis Sittenfeld - Help Yourself - https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/112/1120639/help-yourself/9780857527479.html 

Pariss’ picks: 

Chaos and Colour - https://www.chaosandcolour.com/ 

Elle article - https://www.elle.com/uk/fashion/g32727342/black-owned-fashion-brands/ 

Vogue article - https://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/gallery/pussy-bow-blouses-bourgeois

The Jinx - https://www.hbo.com/the-jinx-the-life-and-deaths-of-robert-durst 

Wild Wild Country - https://www.netflix.com/title/80145240?s=i&trkid=13747225 

Thanks and tell your friends, friend. Hasta luego! x

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It's been two weeks already, we're back in a national lockdown, there's a new President Elect, and finally, maybe, time seems like it's doing what time ought to be doing - being full of happenings. It certainly has for us at least; we've got recommendations coming out of our ears. Becky's back with another gorgeous trip to "poetry corner" courtesy of Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Sarah's all about the learning with new podcasts and a deep-dive into Elizabeth Day's How To Fail, and we crack all over again for a trip to the Four Seasons... Total Landscaping edition.

The main event though is our run through the three big questions - the people who've inspired them, their secret sideline, and their Mastermind specialist subject - with this week's guest, headliner of the very near future, the phenomenal Lauran Hibberd. She and Sarah had met once before this Zoom chat; by the sounds of it they might now be best friends and if you're into Gilmore Girls, Michael Cera, Lizzo, Rivers Cuomo, mums farting on livestreams (keep it clean now), sloths or passive-aggressively people pleasing, then please accept your pass to the club and hit that subscribe button while you're at it!

We'd love for you to get in touch, tell us what you think of the podcast, what you've been enjoying this week, and obviously, how to pronounce that lovely poet's name. Any and all help appreciated at the following you lovely person:

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(And if you're really into it, then we'd love for you to have a peruse of our Patreon - we promise that there's plenty in it for you, too: www.patreon.com/calmdowndear)

Shownotes

Four Seasons Total Landscaping - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/09/four-seasons-total-landscaping-trump-gardening-merchandise 

"The Lady Who Ruined The Painting" - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/18/painting-matching-fresco-monkey-christ-resurfaces-zaragoza-spain 

Letter - Tadeusz Dąbrowski - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/26/letter 

In Writing - Hattie Crisell http://www.hattiecrisell.com/in-writing-with-hattie-crisell-podcast 

How To Fail - Elizabeth Day - https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-fail/elizabeth-day/9780008327354 

David Letterman - “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” with Lizzo - https://www.netflix.com/search?q=david%20letterman&jbv=80209096 

Lauran Hibberd

Lauran's painting raffle, on behalf of The Isle of Wight Foodbank - https://raffall.com/141292/enter-raffle-to-win-lockdown-birthday-party-hosted-by-lauran-hibberd?fbclid=IwAR0o2GYoxzIDbt7CM0wOKA9PG8sAwBaMy71HZB9QsnYU8AzO_5FcayuWz8o

Lauran Hibberd - Boy Bye - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwA6ojCyjMs

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Our enthusiasm knows no bounds - even when it comes to naming genitals apparently. Another week brings another batch of legitimate and brilliant recommendations (The Hungover Games, Pobby and Dingan) and a slightly larger batch of the absurd/nauseating (Gallagher and Albarn literotica, childhood names for genitals etc), in what genuinely may be our most ridiculous episode yet. You'll love it.

Our guest this week is the brilliant author, former lawyer and expert on love, Laura Mucha. Her book We Need To Talk About Love (Bloomsbury) is an international journey through the lived lives of love, based on scrupulous research and extraordinary personal accounts, not least from Laura herself. Would you have expected someone with these accolades to be into flying trapeze? Nope, us neither. She's a wonder.

As always, we'd love to hear what you think of the episode, and what you've been particularly enthusiastic about this week - you can get in touch at the following:

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Oh, and remember to subscribe and check out our Patreon below!

Shownotes

Damon Albarn/Liam Gallagher Literotica - https://archiveofourown.org/works/24198127?view_adult=true 

My Immortal by Tara Gillesbie - https://myimmortal.fandom.com/wiki/My_Immortal/Chapters_1-11

The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/09/the-hungover-games-by-sophie-heawood-review-an-acerbic-must-read

Alice Vincent (Noughticulture) - https://www.instagram.com/noughticulture/?hl=en

Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/321578.Pobby_and_Dingan

Seven Samurai/A Bug's Life - https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-origins-of-a-bugs-life/#:~:text=Seven%20Samurai%2C%20if%20you've,come%20and%20steal%20their%20livelihoods.

The Science of Love for Unicef - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt4KHvR39Yc

Patreon - http://patreon.com/calmdowndear

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We're aware that we say this almost every week, but this might be our most ridiculous episode yet. Join us on a wild ride from having the horn over stationery to Nick Hornby, and from radio to really awful bits of Changing Rooms. What can we say, we like to cover a lot of ground.

Happily our guest this week has much the same mantra. A composer, writer, lyricist, musical director, sound designer and apparently now a tarot reader too, Kate Marlais is one of the most talented and annoyingly, downright hilarious humans we've ever had the pleasure of chatting to. PSA: Don't listen to this chat while running in cemeteries/drinking coffee. It will not go well for you. You have been warned. 

As always we'd love it if you'd subscribe (we're here every week baby), tell your friends, and most especially get in touch at the following:

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You may have heard too that we're poor and as such have a Patreon which is quite frankly hilarious and, with all the fun bonus goodies you'll get, greatly worthwhile - no matter how much you're able to spend! It'll also mean that we have the time to be able to keep making these as while they're very fun, they're also a lot of work. Have a goosy-gander here: https://www.patreon.com/calmdowndear

Shownotes

NTS Radio - Chloe Sevigny First Love - https://www.nts.live/shows/we-are-who-we-are/episodes/nts-x-we-are-who-we-are-fir

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

Nick Hornby - Juliet, Naked

Kate Marlais - https://www.katemarlais.com/

John Walter - Lockdown Tarot - http://johnwalter.net/lockdowntarot/ 

Changing Rooms Teapot Disaster - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opb8iaslEjE

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Another week, another podcast... Or a few, based on Becky and Sarah's suggestions for this week. Once again it's been a bountiful week of viewing, listening, reading and fostering an astounding number of new obsessions, including but not limited to Dan Levy, pumpkin pasta and Emily In Paris.

Our guest this week too is a jack of all trades, and annoyingly a master of them all too. Abbie McCarthy is an award winning presenter for BBC Radio 1, 4 Music, Match of the Day 2, and (along with our Sarah) a fellow BBC Music Introducing presenter, in her case for Kent, making her responsible for discovering the likes of Slaves and Sports Team. No biggie. She is the founder of the internationally renowned Good Karma Club nights, is an A&R rep for Insanity Records, and as we discover in this episode, really knows her sitcoms. Her journey to greatness has been one paved with hard work, determination and graft - if you've ever been interested in radio or broadcasting, this is most certainly the episode to download and take notes.

As always we'd love it if you'd subscribe (we're here every week baby), tell your friends, and most especially get in touch at the following:

Instagram: @calmdowndearpodcast

Twitter: @calmdowndearpod

Website: calmdowndearpodcast.com

Email: [email protected]

You may have heard too that we're poor and as such have a Patreon which is quite frankly hilarious and, with all the fun bonus goodies you'll get, greatly worthwhile - no matter how much you're able to spend! It'll also mean that we have the time to be able to keep making these as while they're very fun, they're also a lot of work. Have a goosy-gander here lovely friend: https://www.patreon.com/calmdowndear?fan_landing=true

Shownotes

Emily in Paris - https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=81037371

Peaches by Peter Davison - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154255/peaches

Adam Buxton with Robbie Williams - https://open.spotify.com/episode/00NCCRmCv9lmrUYcMEpjZz?si=Y4ia2Mg8T4CUokQEDlua5A 

I Hate Suzie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnxWuZyNILQ

Dan Levy 73 Questions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_UGLf9mUg8

Dan Levy Hot Ones - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl84QblsNP8

Good Karma Club - https://www.facebook.com/GoodKarmaClub1/

BBC Music Introducing - https://www.bbc.co.uk/introducing

Gavin & Stacey - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b007nf70/gavin-stacey

The Office US - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B00EU7Z3CY/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s1

Homes Under The Hammer - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006v5kb

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We're back baby! After a long break (to read, watch, and in Sarah's case, actually break some tendons) Becky and Sarah return with a shedload of new loves, and a phenomenal first guest.

She's Mercury Prize 2020 shortlisted, the former composer-in-residence with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, loves a board game and has an MBE... Anna Meredith may well be our perfect enthusiastic guest and as always, we're asking the big questions, finding out who has inspired her, what her secret sidelines are, and what her Mastermind specialist subject would be.

Plus as per usual, Becky and Sarah's minds are in the gutter at every turn, Becky's been binging and Sarah's finally come to understand Reality TV... Heaven help us all.

If you enjoyed the episode, we'd love to hear from you (not if you didn't, that would be mean). You can reach us at the following:

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @calmdowndearpodcast

Twitter: @calmdowndearpod

Website: calmdowndearpodcast.com

Show notes:

Guy Garvey’s Finest Hour - Hounds of Love at 35, A Kate Bush Special - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000my63

Selling Sunset - https://www.netflix.com/title/80223108

Olive Kitteridge - https://www.elizabethstrout.com/books/olive-kitteridge

Tess of the D'urbervilles - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dlpcj

Three Women - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/27/three-women-lisa-taddeo-review

Us - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08qfb0y/us-series-1-episode-1

Mercury prize - https://www.mercuryprize.com/news/the-2020-hyundai-mercury-prize-albums-of-the-year

Laura Marling and 12 Ensemble - https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e94rn3

8th Grade - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/28/eighth-grade-coming-of-age-bo-burnham-review-mark-kermode

Living With Yourself - https://www.netflix.com/title/80178724

Paramour music video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjmZLaymJU8

Killjoy music video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6WP4dXGOvg

Yogi - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/224271/yogi

Pandemic - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic

Articulate - https://www.drumondpark.com/articulate

Geoguessr - https://www.geoguessr.com/

Exploding Kittens - https://explodingkittens.com/

Camel Up - https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/153938/camel

Shaun T - https://shauntfitness.com/

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In our final episode of the season (don't worry, we'll be back in a month!) Becky has a chat with the phenomenally enthusiastic children's author Michelle Robinson about everything from building a desk in Animal Crossing instead of in your own home to the joys of listening to something faintly horrifying while you're drifting off to sleep. We didn't get it either, but Michelle was very persuasive.

Plus of course, Sarah and Becky have a natter about what they've been up to over the past week - spoiler, it's largely being mad at the heat - and debate whether humanity really is doomed. All in a day's work eh?

As always, we'd love to hear what you think of the podcast, what's been getting you enthused recently, and who you'd like to hear in SEASON TWO of Calm Down Dear. You can find us at:

Instagram: @calmdowndearpodcast

Twitter: @calmdowndearpod

Website: www.calmdowndearpodcast.com

Email: [email protected]

Links:

Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead? https://www.waterstones.com/book/do-humankinds-best-days-lie-ahead/steven-pinker/matt-ridley/9781786070760

Adam Buxton and Malcolm Gladwell - https://open.spotify.com/episode/17vjlbbzcmhPL6C5XPWmj7?si=LEphEvwNRySSJA-9QbKRgQ

Essays in Love - Alain De Botton - https://www.alaindebotton.com/essays-in-love/

Arvon Foundation - https://www.arvon.org/

Mojo Moves - https://www.mojomoves.co.uk/#:~:text=Mojo%20Moves%20is%20a%20feel,t%20take%20your%20wellbeing%20seriously. 

Winchester Mystery House - https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

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In episode 11, Sarah has the joy of chatting to the beloved author of How I Live Now and The Great Godden (and enthusiastic polymath) Meg Rosoff, who it seems is outright gunning for her job. Cue madcap chat about monsters under the bed, ghosts, devious childhood plans and human oddities in one of our favourite chats yet (we know, we say that every time). Plus of course, Becky and Sarah have their weekly catch-up on what they've loved (Adam Buxton, The Peanut Butter Falcon, and Raymond Carver to name) and the less-loved (never finishing anything. Ever.).

We love this episode, and hope you do too. And y'know, because we're needy, please like and subscribe if you're into it, and pop us a message at one of the following:

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We're on our tenth episode! Blimey that's flown. To celebrate, out big guest chat of the ep is with the award winning Australian-British conductor Jessica Cottis who has, among others, performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and the BBC Concert Orchestra, and has been described as “cool, contained, super-articulate and engaging” - given that the first three at least are the opposite of us, she seemed like the perfect guest.

The early morning recording (read 11:30am) also sent us somewhat giddy, so expect our most consistently lewd recommendations chat yet, complete with inappropriate underwear and EE Cummings - don't worry though, we're not quite as randy as Bernadine Evaristo. If that's not ringing any bells, well you'll just have to listen to the show, won't you?

Links:

E. E. Cummings poem - https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/fieldnotesandfootnotes.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/e-e-cummings-being-cheeky/amp/

Bernardine Evaristo: ‘How often do I have sex? Eight times a day’ - 

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/25/bernardine-evaristo-how-often-have-sex-eight-times-a-day

Angie Wickenden ceramics - https://instagram.com/angiewickenden?igshid=7aawybicnszt

Sarah Cooper Twitter - https://twitter.com/sarahcpr?s=21

Outlander - https://www.channel4.com/programmes/outlander

Jurassic Park Updates - https://twitter.com/JurassicPark2go?s=21

Will Hislop Twitter - https://twitter.com/WillDHislop?s=21

Marie-Claire Alain - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/mar/04/marie-claire-alain

Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D7abQTy71I

Vladimir Ashkenazy - http://www.vladimirashkenazy.com/

Sir Colin Davis - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/apr/14/sir-colin-davis-obituary

Peacock butterflies - https://butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/peacock

Vladimir Nabokov, Butterfly Illustrator - https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/vladimir-nabokov-butterfly-illustrator#:~:text=A%20drawing%20by%20Vladimir%20Nabokov,at%20the%20age%20of%20seven.&text=Petersburg%20for%20Crimea%2C%20where%20he,seven%20species%20of%20Crimean%20butterflies.

Irkanda 1 by Peter Sculthorpe - https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/workversion/sculthorpe-peter-irkanda-i/2207

The Monstrous Child - https://www.roh.org.uk/productions/the-monstrous-child-by-timothy-sheader#:~:text=Background,her%20own%20darkly%20humorous%20novel.

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra do David Bowie's 'Sound and Vision' -

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=otTiodsb-sU

As always, we'd love to hear from you! Get in touch via email at [email protected], or by following us on Twitter and Facebook @calmdowndearpod, and Instagram @calmdowndearpodcast.

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Our ninth episode sees Sarah getting to chat again to one of her favourite interviewees ever - the award-winning and much beloved playwright, Winsome Pinnock.

Often referred to as "the godmother of black British playwrights", she was the first black British female to have a play produced by the Royal National Theatre. You might have heard her recent play Rockets And Blue Lights as part of BBC Radio 3's Lockdown Theatre, but did you know that it all started with a childhood slapstick double act prancing around in school? Nope, us neither.

Definitely one of our most inspiring guests to date, we discuss in depth the nuances in conversation on black identity and British identity, and the obvious overlap therein, and of course Becky and Sarah catch up on their week's antics with an unsurprising focus on the outrageously extraordinary I May Destroy You. Oh and they play "Guess What's In The Bin Bag". Because what else would they be doing.

Links:

James Fenton - I’m In Paris With You - https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-paris-with-you/

Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse

Adrian Mitchell - This Be The Worst - https://learn1.open.ac.uk/mod/oublog/viewpost.php?post=75755

I May Destroy You - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000jyxy/i-may-destroy-you

Michaela Coel - The James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odusP8gmqsg

Rockets and Blue Lights - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k1kj

Rockets and Blue Lights review - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jun/13/rockets-and-blue-lights-review-bbc

Peer Gynt - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Peer-Gynt-play-by-Ibsen

JMW Turner - Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) - https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31102

The Mimic Men essay - https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/128519/10/07_chapter%203.pdf

Bliss by Katherine Mansfield - http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/assets/KM-Stories/BLISS1918.pdf

As always, we'd love to hear from you! Get in touch via email at [email protected], or by following us on Twitter and Facebook @calmdowndearpod, and Instagram @calmdowndearpodcast.

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